top 50% hacker news stories for 2022-11-15

Sapling: A new source control system with Git-compatible client

https://engineering.fb.com/2022/11/15/open-source/sapling-source-control-scalable/

3 years ago

I record myself on audio 24x7 and use an AI to process the information

https://roberdam.com/en/wisper.html

3 years ago

Digital books wear out faster than physical books

http://blog.archive.org/2022/11/15/digital-books-wear-out-faster-than-physical-books/

3 years ago

Ever-expanding animation of the life of the 796th floor of a space station

https://floor796.com/

3 years ago

Adding a hinge to a Game Boy that God never intended

https://posts.decontextualize.com/pocket-sp/

3 years ago

Emergency SOS via satellite

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2022/11/emergency-sos-via-satellite-available-today-on-iphone-14-lineup/

3 years ago

My project is now an easter egg in Microsoft Flight Simulator

https://github.com/s-macke/FSHistory

3 years ago

What Happened at Alameda Research

https://milkyeggs.com/?p=175

3 years ago

Wikipedians are rebelling against “unethical” Wikipedia fundraising banners

https://twitter.com/wikiland/status/1592477366739415040

3 years ago

Why do we call it “boilerplate code?”

https://buttondown.email/hillelwayne/archive/why-do-we-call-it-boilerplate-code/

3 years ago

Galactica: an AI trained on humanity's scientific knowledge (by Meta)

https://galactica.org/

3 years ago

All companies are fucked up

https://jonpauluritis.com/articles/all-companies-are-fucked-up/

3 years ago

FTX was registered with and licensed by the CFTC, which failed to regulate FTX

https://bettermarkets.org/newsroom/ftx-was-registered-with-and-licensed-by-the-cftc-which-failed-to-properly-regulate-or-supervise-it-and-its-innumerable-former-cftc-officials/

3 years ago

Electric ferry uses a long extension cord [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYqCWxdM4ww

3 years ago

The Bucks can’t wear cream uniforms because they interfere with digital ads

https://paullukas.substack.com/p/exclusive-the-inside-story-of-why

3 years ago

Vast Majority of People Who Invest in Bitcoin Inevitably Lose Money, Study Shows

https://gizmodo.com/bitcoin-crypto-bank-of-international-settlements-1849784466

3 years ago

FTX Owes Money to More Than a Million People, Court Filing Suggests

https://www.vice.com/en/article/jgpnvg/ftx-owes-money-to-more-than-a-million-people-court-filing-suggests

3 years ago

Activision Blizzard Is Trying to Stop a Union Vote at Its Albany Office

https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkgv48/activision-blizzard-is-trying-to-stop-a-union-vote-at-its-albany-office

3 years ago

Show HN: Campus FM – live stream college and independent radio stations

https://www.campus-fm.com/

3 years ago

PlanetScale Boost

https://planetscale.com/blog/introducing-planetscale-boost

3 years ago

Disney+ demands users’ age and gender so it can “deliver targeted advertising”

https://reclaimthenet.org/disney-plus-demands-users-age-and-gender/

3 years ago

How PlanetScale Boost serves SQL queries faster

https://planetscale.com/blog/how-planetscale-boost-serves-your-sql-queries-instantly

3 years ago

Crsql – Multi-writer and CRDT support for SQLite

https://github.com/vlcn-io/cr-sqlite

3 years ago

Divers accidentally find a piece of the Challenger space shuttle

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/divers-accidentally-find-a-piece-of-the-challenger-space-shuttle-180981121/

3 years ago

The sinister attempts to ‘decolonise’ mathematics

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-sinister-attempts-to-decolonise-mathematics/

3 years ago

Machine learning with Unix pipes

https://jott.live/markdown/ml_pipes

3 years ago

Four Years of Sourcehut

https://sourcehut.org/blog/2022-11-15-four-years/

3 years ago

Researchers generate hydrogen more efficiently from water

https://phys.org/news/2022-10-revolutionary-technique-hydrogen-efficiently.html

3 years ago

The gut microbiome helps social skills develop in the brain in fish

https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-gut-microbiome-helps-social-skills-develop-in-the-brain-20221115/

3 years ago

Przewodów village in Poland hit by two Russian missiles, two dead

https://wiadomosci.radiozet.pl/Polska/rakiety-spadly-na-polske-sa-ofiary-smiertelne

3 years ago

Good Old Fashioned AI is dead, long live New-Fangled AI

https://billwadge.com/2022/11/13/gofai-is-dead-long-live-nf-ai/

3 years ago

Ask HN: Hourly billers, do you bill for only focused work?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33610147

3 years ago

What is the Difference between px, rem and em?

https://carlmultimedia.com/px-vs-rem-vs-em/

3 years ago

Lemmy: A Federated Reddit Alternative

https://lemmy.ml/

3 years ago

The Kalevala (Crawford Translation, 1888)

https://sacred-texts.com/neu/kveng/

3 years ago

Canada police charge Hydro-Quebec employee with China espionage

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-63631933

3 years ago

NYPD Arrests Cyclist for Uncovering Obscured License Plate, Lets Driver Go

https://jalopnik.com/nypd-arrests-cyclist-lets-driver-go-ghost-car-1849785539

3 years ago

Berkshire Hathaway bought a $4.1B stake in Apple chipmaker TSMC

https://9to5mac.com/2022/11/15/berkshire-hathaway-bought/

3 years ago

Texas Instruments’ Biggest Blunder: The TMS9900 Microprocessor (2017)

https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-inside-story-of-texas-instruments-biggest-blunder-the-tms9900-microprocessor

3 years ago

Show HN: Rethinking Tabs in Firefox

https://madprops.github.io/grasshopper/

3 years ago

Ask HN: How ready for daily driving is Asahi Linux?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33607994

3 years ago

AP: Russian missiles crossed into NATO member Poland, killing two people

https://twitter.com/ap/status/1592593237902036992

3 years ago

BugMeNot Is Gone?

https://bugmenot.com

3 years ago

Ask HN: What Is a COO?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33608546

3 years ago

Rimac Nevera Hits 412kph to Become World’s Fastest Production Electric Car

https://www.rimac-automobili.com/media/press-releases/record-breaking-rimac-nevera-hits-412kph-to-become-worlds-fastest-production-electric-car/

3 years ago

Researchers thought this was a bug (Borwein integrals) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=851U557j6HE

3 years ago

Libgrapheme: A simple freestanding C99 library for Unicode

https://libs.suckless.org/libgrapheme/

3 years ago

On Bullshit (1986) [pdf]

http://www2.csudh.edu/ccauthen/576f12/frankfurt__harry_-_on_bullshit.pdf

3 years ago

Studies find automatic braking can cut crashes over 40%

https://apnews.com/article/technology-business-3a3816bd26418cc612d5b9b56d86f3a8

3 years ago

How fast is ASP.NET Core?

https://dusted.codes/how-fast-is-really-aspnet-core

3 years ago

Ask HN: How do you manage your important personal documents and other data?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33615785

3 years ago

Who first thought of the notion of Polynomial Time?

http://blog.computationalcomplexity.org/2022/11/who-first-thought-of-notion-of.html

3 years ago

Tutankhamun's Meteoric Iron Dagger

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tutankhamun%27s_meteoric_iron_dagger

3 years ago

Vivaldi Social, your new federated social-networking home

https://vivaldi.com/blog/news/vivaldi-social-a-new-mastodon-instance/

3 years ago

The Terayacht Project

https://www.pangeosyacht.com/projects

3 years ago

Fedora Linux 37

https://fedoramagazine.org/announcing-fedora-37/

3 years ago

What to do if a nuclear disaster is imminent [pdf]

http://www.ki4u.com/guide.pdf

3 years ago

Giant satellite outshines stars, sparking fresh concerns for astronomers

https://www.science.org/content/article/giant-satellite-outshines-stars-sparking-fresh-concerns-astronomers

3 years ago

The day the dinosaurs died (2019)

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/04/08/the-day-the-dinosaurs-died

3 years ago

What is interferometry?

https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/technology/interferometry/

3 years ago

React Native made me give up a project today

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33609943

3 years ago

Launch HN: Activeloop (YC S18) – Data lake for deep learning

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33610834

3 years ago

Apple’s satellite emergency SOS feature: A review and deep-dive explainer

https://www.dcrainmaker.com/2022/11/apple-iphone-satellite-sos-emergency-explainer.html

3 years ago

Show HN: Semantic Video Search

https://ramanlabs.in/static/videointel.html

3 years ago

Tinycpm – CP/M ON A TINY 2040

https://www.kianryan.co.uk/2022-11-14-tiny-cpm/

3 years ago